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Table 7
Experiences of unwanted behaviours in the workplace, by type of behaviour, sexual orientation and gender, Canada, 2018

Table 7
Experiences of unwanted behaviours in the workplace, by type of behaviour, sexual orientation and gender, Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Experiences of unwanted behaviours in the workplace. The information is grouped by Type of behaviour (appearing as row headers), Sexual minority, Heterosexual, Male gender, Female gender, Total, percent and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of behaviour	Sexual minority^{Table 7 Note 1}									Heterosexual^{Table 7 Note †}
	Male gender			Female gender			Total^{Table 7 Note 2}			Male gender			Female gender			Total^{Table 7 Note 2}
	percent^{Table 7 Note 3}	95% confidence interval		percent^{Table 7 Note 3}	95% confidence interval		percent^{Table 7 Note 3}	95% confidence interval		percent^{Table 7 Note 3}	95% confidence interval		percent^{Table 7 Note 3}	95% confidence interval		percent^{Table 7 Note 3}	95% confidence interval
	percent^{Table 7 Note 3}	from	to	percent^{Table 7 Note 3}	from	to	percent^{Table 7 Note 3}	from	to	percent^{Table 7 Note 3}	from	to	percent^{Table 7 Note 3}	from	to	percent^{Table 7 Note 3}	from	to
Inappropriate sexual jokes	18.8^Note *	14.1	24.6	32.8^Note ***	26.4	39.9	26.9^Note *	22.5	31.8	11.6	10.8	12.5	17.7^Note **	16.6	18.8	14.5	13.8	15.2
Unwanted sexual attention	15.4^Note *	10.5	22.1	27.1^Note ***	21.1	34.0	23.1^Note *	18.8	28.0	3.8	3.4	4.4	14.3^Note **	13.3	15.4	8.8	8.3	9.3
Unwanted physical contact	11.3^Note *	7.5	16.8	27.6^Note ***	21.7	34.4	17.2^Note *	17.2	26.2	4.4	3.9	5.0	12.7^Note **	11.7	13.7	8.3	7.8	8.9
Suggestions that you do not act like a man or woman is supposed to act	11.8^Note *	8.2	16.7	26.1^Note ***	20.1	33.2	20.8^Note *	16.8	25.6	4.5	4.0	5.1	6.8^Note **	6.1	7.6	5.6	5.2	6.1
Someone insulted, mistreated, ignored, or excluded you because of your gender	5.6	3.5	8.7	20.0^Note ***	14.5	26.9	13.8^Note *	10.5	18.0	3.1	2.6	3.6	9.6^Note **	8.8	10.5	6.2	5.7	6.7
Someone insulted, mistreated, ignored, or excluded you because of your sexual orientation	10.6^Note *	7.3	15.2	11.4^Note *	6.8	18.5	11.1^Note *	8.1	15.1	0.9	0.7	1.2	1.1	0.9	1.4	1.0	0.8	1.2
Someone insulted, mistreated, ignored, or excluded you because you are, or are assumed to be, transgender	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	1.0	0.4	2.2	1.5^Note *	0.8	2.8	0.5	0.4	0.8	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.6
Experienced inappropriate behaviours in the workplace in the past 12 months	34.7^Note *	28.1	42.0	48.8^Note ***	42.2	55.5	44.3^Note *	39.4	49.4	16.3	15.3	17.3	27.9^Note **	26.7	29.2	21.8	21.1	22.6
F too unreliable to be published Note * significantly different from reference category only (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note significantly different from estimate for male gender only (p < 0.05) Return to note referrer Note * significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05) and estimate for male gender (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note † reference category Return to note † referrer Note 1 Sexual minority refers to those who reported their sexual orientation as gay or lesbian, bisexual, or a sexual orientation not elsewhere classified. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes gender diverse respondents as well as those who did not indicate their gender. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Percent calculations include missing or not stated responses. Return to note 3 referrer Note: Excludes respondents who did not work in the past 12 months. Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces.

Date modified:: 2020-09-09